Reflection:
Today, we began shooting our film and learnt a lot about the difficulties involved in doing so. The classroom we had planned to use was occupied by a class, so we had to move down to the library. Setting up the camera was quite quick due to the storyboard planning, though the added ability to film from in front of me instead of behind me due to the lack of a wall ahead of me allowed us to experiment a little.
We also had to fiddle around a little bit with the tripod for the camera. Although this wasn't at all damaging to our filming, it was important to learn how to properly use the camera stand for future purposes. The camera tilt and pan function was very useful in reducing the potential for shaking the camera and improving the smoothness of camera movements.
Evaluation:
We filmed in the library, and managed to finish by the end of the class as required. Since our script called for some very unusual and comical moments, it was extremely difficult to restrain myself from laughter at some moments. This meant that we had to reshoot several times, which took up too much time. I also diverted slightly from the script's dialogue, and improvised slightly, which was probably not too beneficial since it made the other people in my group laugh.
Overall, however, our group managed once again to complete filming on time before the end of class, and we also managed to import all the video clips onto the computer so that we won't need to waste time next lesson preparing the clips for editing. I did remain focused today throughout filming, and the difficulties we faced were nobody's fault. We did have a lot of fun in filming, though in future we should learn our lines a little more thoroughly to avoid wasting that one minute where we had to memorize them.
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